Mikhail Khodorkovsky does not intend to finance the Russian opposition, as YUKOS did, does not intend to engage in business anymore, and does not plan any investment projects, including in the West. The ex-head of the oil company stated this at a press conference for a narrow circle in Berlin, Interfax reports . As the businessman noted, he has money to live on, but he does not buy football clubs. As for sponsoring the opposition, the businessman admitted that he “does not have the financial capacity” for this. He also noted that this would be dangerous primarily for the opposition.

Khodorkovsky said that he intends to continue his work on appealing the guilty verdicts in the “YUKOS case” and will continue. “I am convinced that even if this cannot be done now (to achieve the reversal of decisions), the time will come when this can be done, I will work on it. This specifically concerns criminal prosecution; the topic of the company’s assets does not interest me,” Khodorkovsky said.

Speaking about the political motivation of the sentences, Khodorkovsky said that “it is obvious even to the European Court of Human Rights.” According to him, the charges brought “were so phantasmagorical that they could probably be explained by non-political reasons, perhaps by taking it as a postulate that the secret services employ not entirely adequate people.” “But they are not only adequate, but also quite strong,” he noted. businessman.

According to the journalists present, the event has a closed format. At 16:00 Moscow time, Khodorkovsky will hold another main press conference, which will be broadcast and widely covered in the media. Photos posted on Twitter show Khodorkovsky sitting surrounded by a small group of journalists, with several banners with text from UN General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) of December 10, 1948 hanging behind him. “Article 1. All people are born free and equal in dignity and rights” is written behind Khodorkovsky’s back in English, French and German.

Photo from Pavel Khodorkovsky's Twitter

today Khodorkovsky's son Pavel told the French newspaper Le Monde that his father "extremely actively communicates with those around him and strives to learn about everything that happened in the world while he was in prison."

Khodorkovsky refused to finance the opposition due to lack of money